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Skip told Wilson about his memories of Smithville and about how it was when he grew up compared to today.

Interview with my grandpa about WWII Homefront

Mother and aunt's impressions of WWII.

Sono Begert (née Nishimura) travelled from Japan to Europe in 1939, just as World War II began.

Hazel M. Pace talks with her son James T. Pace about being a nurse in Menlo Park, CA for the Army and tells about meeting her husband Bob at Dibble General Hospital, where she was working. Hazel and James tell...

Lucille Wilhoit passed away on September 3, 2016. I remembered I'd recorded two interviews with her for the National Day of Listening in November of 2010. She talks in this interview about the importance of music to her, and how...

Renee Cirimelli recounts her childhood while under German duress, her transition into American culture, and how she met her husband in the United States.

Dr. Warren Minami, National Japanese American Memorial Foundation (NJAMF) Chair Emeritus, recounts his early life experience at the Gila River, Arizona incarceration camp and its impact on him and his family, including their later involvement with Asian American causes. Unedited...

I wanted to learn about my grandpa and what it was like to grow up in the 1940s and 1950s. He also told me about what my mother was like when she was a little girl. He also talked about...

This is a first-person account of what a young Iowa farm boy experienced after the escort carrier he was stationed on was sunk and the harrowing 48 hours spent floating in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued.

Marie C. Flatley talks to her grandson, Robert Maliff, about her experiences growing up during the depression and both World Wars, as well as hobby of betting on the horsetrack.

In this interview, Taylor Allan (16) interviews Marly Meulemans (84) about historical events that took place in her childhood and how they influenced her later life. These historical events include the Polio epidemic and WWII.

Interview with my maternal grandmother, Anna Pieger.

Kara Stoltze, 32, hears one of the happiest memories of her grandmother, Charleen Frescher Gunning, 88.

Edward Johnson (86 years old), the son of a D-Day soldier, recounts his childhood during WWII. His granddaughter, Alexandra Johnson (17 years old), asks questions specific to the situation of his childhood. He answers questions relating to the impact of...

This was an interview I did with my Grandmother Verna (aka Moogie)

Michele recorded a conversation with her mother in 2007. It includes many questions about her sister, Carol Ann Bulkley Johnson and her father Rollo Newman Bulkley

Audrey talks about family, childhood, and college

95 year old Bernice Deloris Glarborg Jensen reflects on her heritage and growing up. Her parents came over from Denmark, settling in Nebraska and then in Idaho.

World War Two veteran and longtime Watsonville native, Al Hopson tells of his time in the United States Army Air Corps (now called the US Air Force). He enlisted in February of 1943 on his eighteenth birthday. His intention was...

Interview with Clarence Crawford. Various historical events

A chat about childhood in the 40s

Interview with my grandpa on WWII homefront

My Dad talks about growing up in Wyoming and in the San Fernando Valley, when it was still ranches and orchards. He talks about his older family members, his friends, and his memory of the day his wife Susi was...

I interviewed my grandfather in order to learn more about his experience living in a Japanese internment camp during WWII.